The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-11-05
TROOPS AND DETECTIVES.
Preparations for the Last Scene in
the haymarket Tragedy
Governor oglesby VIII Not Save the
Condemned Anarchists.
A Dead Carpenter Now Claimed to
be the Bomb Thrower.

/ a Dedu SatFCttCf NOW CtdtneQ 10
be the Bomb Thrower.
CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 4.-Sheriff Matson will
now proceed rapidly with the arrangements
for the execution Of the Anarchists. which
ceremony will take place in the northeast
corner ofthe north corridor Of the county Jail.
| This corridor fronts on Illinois street and is
lighted by numerous windows. 1t is roomy
and 1000 persons have been crowded into it
upon the occasion of previous execu-
tions, notably that of the the three Italians
Gelardi, Azari and Silvestri. They were
hanged upon one scaffold, and the same ma
chine will be used for the Anarchists.
The latter are to be hanged in two patches,
| four at one time and three at another, ac-
cording to the present programme, for the
galOWs is not large enough to accommodate
| the seven at once. The details of the execu-
| tion have not as yet been decided upon, for
| the sheriff says it is not necessary to worry
about them until within twenty, four hours
| of the hanging.
Two regiments of militia will be in readi-
ness to march at moments nolice, and the
| two companies of regulars, on duty at High
| Wood. just north of Chicago, the site Of the
new military post. will be available. Alto
| gether in case of trouble, battery of nearly
| $500 soldiers and police will be at the dspo-
| sal of the authorities in case Of an outbreak
which, however, is not anticipated.
The great danger is that bombs may be
thrown, and the buildings most in danger are
the city hall, county court house, criminal
court buildings, county jail, the police sta
tions and newspaper Offices These places
will be well guarded and any man found
with bomb in his possession will undoubt-
edly be shot at once
The temper of the people is such that they
Will not permit any nonsense. While exag-
Grated stories of the state of feeling have
been sent to various papers throughout the
country, there is no doubt that there is much
fear of trouble, and many persons will leave
the city to remain until after the execution.
Anything aud everything is expected and
nothing may happen. Then again there may
be occurrences in comparison with which the
Haymarket was nothing. There are many
dangerous elements in Chicago and their
hatred Of the police might lead them to COM
init crimes which would, of course, be laid
at the door of the Anarchists and their SYM
pathizers. st-
All residences in the vicinity of the Jail
have been under surveillance by the police
for month or more and new boarders and
r00mers have been investigated and the an
tecedents of new dodgers are at once looked
up. The streets in the neighborho0d of the
| jail are very quiet today and no crowds have
| gathered. The guard at the Jail was in
creased by large number of police officers
| in plain clothing.
From now until the day of their death the
death watch will be more strictly kept upon
| the doomed men, and their visitors will be
confined to their relatives. The food brought
them will be carefully examined to see that
| 1t contains nothing by means of which the
prisoners could commit suicide. Suicide is
what the officers look for LOW, and every pre-
caution will be taken to prevent poison being
| smuggled in.
The Visitors.
The Anarchists had the usual quota of
visitors during the visiting hour, but they
were unusually quiet, and there was total
absence of that forced hilarity both on the
| part Of visitors and prisoners that was man.
ifested as late as yesterday
Mrs. Parsons, who, for the first time in
many weeks, left her children at home, de-
| voted her time to an earnest whispered con-
ference with her husband, after which she
| hurried away.
| Spies smiled sickly smile when Nina Van
| Zandt came in, but she did not return it, and
as she pressed his finger through the bars
| tears stood in her eyes.
Even Ling, who had discarded his flaming
| red necktie for bow of maroon, seemed to
| be laboring under depression of spirits,
| and replied in mOnOsyllables to the earnest
| pleadings of his sweetheart that he would
| join with Spies and Fielden in petition fol
mercy.
| Fischer was the happiest Of the seven. Hi:
| wife, who was kept at home by illness yes
| terday, was again able to come to him. and
in response to her entreaties Jailer Holz
permitted their little girl to go into the cage
and nestle her head upon her fathers shoul.
\ der.
Engel was visited by his wife and one OF
| her neighb0rs. 1t was noticeable that the
prisoners kept very much to their own kith
| and kin instead of going the rounds as
usual. Altogether, it was a very sombre
visit, and the watchmen were glad when it
| was over.
Judge Tuiey's Opinion.
Judge Tuley, one of the best known and
most respected members of the Chicago ju-
dietary, yesterday signed petition asking
the Governor to commute the sentence. In
long statement of his reasons for this
action Judge Tuley says that he has carefully
| studied the case, and, while not doubling
that the condemned men are technically
guilty. he feels that their actual completely
| In the murder of Officer Deagan has not
been shown. and that the extreme penalty of
the law should not be meted out TO them. In
his Judgment public policy would be better
served by Imprisonment for life than by
hanging. Imprisoned for life, the seven
would soon be forgotten; hanged, they
| would be deifed
ogIesby Reticent.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Nov. 4.-Goy Oglesby
receives a large daily mail in reference tc
the Anarchist cases, but declines to make
any of the letters public. Mrs. Miller, OF
Chicago, called on the Governor today to in.
tercede for them, but went away much dis
c0uraged. She thinks the Governor believes
in letting the law take its course.
win Not Interfere.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 4.-Mrs. Emeline
Wilson, sister Of Governor Oglesby. reached
here last night from visit to her brother
She says the Governor is sorey worried by
| the great number of letters which have beer
sent him praying executive clemency OF
threatening him unless he grants pardon, a:
well as by delegations which call on him Il
intercede in behalf of the condemned men
she said he was fully resolved not to inter
fere. She made an inatfectual effort to per
suade her brother to come with her to theil
old home in Kentucky and stay till after the
execution. The Governor refused, saying hC
would stick it out
The Bomb ThroWer.
PITTS BURG, Pa, Nov. 4.-Yesterday
Thomas Owens, an unpretentious carpenter
at work on house at Homestead, fell from
the roof of the building and broke his neck
Squire Oeffner was deputized to hold an in
quest, and today made a report of his in
vestigation. Owens, tthe deceased, it ap-
pears, came to this city about one year ago
some two or three days after the Haymarke et
riot in Chicago, in somewhat dilapidateC
condition, representing himself to be a car
penter out of job. He at once secured
work at Homestead with J. r. MULTI, anC
for the past year has been working steadily
alongside Of man named Peiffer, also a car
penter. When Owens began work he sale
he had just come from Chicago where he haC
brother living, and seemed nervous an(
startled at everything: His manner aroused
the suspicious of Peiffer, who was roomins
as well as working in his company. and al
the first opportunity began a systemati,
questioning Of Owens as to the cause O
alarm. Peiffer yesterday swore beforl
SQUIRE 0effner, in the course of the inquest
that Thomas Owens said: II am very sorr,
for those anarchists in Chicago who are nov
in Jail, charged with throwing bombs at th,
Haymarket riot. There are others outside
who are more to blame than they. | was a
the Haymarket riot and AN an Anarchist
and say that threw the bomb in that riot.
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